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Special Protection of Employment Contracts for Employees Returning from Childcare Leave

Summary/Abstract: The paper examines the characteristics of protective legal regulations for employees returning from maternity or childcare leave. According to the Polish Labour Code, there are two groups of specified protective prescriptions granting employees the right to return to the same post and at the same pre-leave remuneration. An employer is required to give employees their positions back at the end of the childcare leave either in the capacity in which they were employed before taking leave, or, if that is not possible, at an equivalent position or one that corresponds to the employee’s professional qualifications, for remuneration not lower than what they were receiving before taking leave. However, the law does allow the employer to change the employee’s position without his or her consent. The paper assesses the effectiveness and justness of such regulations from the perspective of employers realising state social policy.

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